Family Quotes

Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.

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"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bonds to each other."
David Brower
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"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bond to each other."
Aldo Leopold
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"We inherit not just land but responsibility to those who come after."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Children are the future; invest in them as you would your greatest treasure."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The family is the foundation of all civil society."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Family is the first political unit"
Edward Said
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"We inherit not just land but the responsibility to pass it on undiminished."
David Brower
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"Family is the first school of the human heart."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"We inherit both the struggle and the wisdom of our ancestors."
Aimé Césaire
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"Our daughters and sons deserve to inherit a world that is whole and healthy."
Wangari Maathai
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"The family is the first university of the heart."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The family is where ideology is first instilled."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The family is the foundation upon which all society is built."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Family teaches us love through the unavoidable friction of proximity."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Our daughters and sons deserve to inherit a world no less beautiful than ours."
Wangari Maathai
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"The most important gift we can give our children is a healthy and beautiful world."
Wangari Maathai
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"Family is where we learn to obey."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Family is where we first learn to become ourselves."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Family bonds are created and recreated constantly."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Family is where we first learn the masks we will wear forever."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Family is the first state, and the state is the family enlarged."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Family is not given but constructed through repeated encounters"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Family is the original scene where ideology inscribes itself into the subject."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Family is where ideology learns to walk and talk and reproduce itself."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The family is the first school of inequality."
Max Horkheimer
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"The family is the first camp, the original state of exception."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Children develop moral understanding through interaction with others, not through indoctrination."
Jürgen Habermas
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"We inherit what we do not choose."
Jacques Derrida
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"We cannot not inherit."
Jacques Derrida
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"The family is the first school of subordination; everything else merely elaborates the lesson."
Max Horkheimer